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Chapter 1: What happened to the world's biggest pimp?
The biggest pimp in the world dies at 43 years old. The most valuable company in the world claims to have finally achieved artificial general intelligence. Watch out.
Chapter 2: What claims did NVIDIA make about artificial general intelligence?
And finally, a nice cultural story. The largest Lego set ever made. You want to despair. You want to say our culture has fallen apart. The largest Lego set ever made is of a church. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Chapter 3: What cultural significance does the largest LEGO set hold?
Welcome back to the show. Speaking of AI, McDonald's is testing out humanoid robots even at the front of the store. So usually you go to McDonald's and now they have those screens because the Democrats raised the minimum wage at certain places. So it's cheaper to replace them with computers. But now they're actually replacing the guys even at the cash registers with robots.
And then they're replacing the people who hand you your food with robots. And Pretty soon they're going to replace me with robots. If we've actually hit artificial general intelligence, we're all losing our jobs. You're going to tune into this show like, hello, fellow humans. Beep boop. I'm Michael Knowles. And this is the totally human Michael Knowles show. Beep boop. Beep boop. It's coming.
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Chapter 4: How does AI impact the fast-food industry?
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I do not celebrate his death. I don't celebrate anybody's death. No man is an island entire unto himself. Each man's death diminishes me because I am part of humanity. However, it's really sad that this guy died. Not just, you know, he's a young guy. I don't know if he had a family. I don't know. I don't know anything about him. I don't really want to know that much about him.
But it's really sad because of what a terrible life he led. It's really sad. I don't mean that just to dunk on the guy. I mean, it's really sad. This guy was given life by God, and he got 43 years of it. Relatively short, I guess, but still 43 years. 43 years looked at from another perspective is a long time, and he wasted it. He did worse than wasting it. He did a lot of evil in his life.
He used those 43 years for bad purposes. And now that he's died, some people are going to celebrate his death, and other people are just going to kind of shrug their shoulders, and no one's going to miss him. And he'll, if he is remembered at all, he will be remembered as a disgraceful person. And that's really, really sad because that could happen to any of us.
Part of the reason I don't celebrate when someone dies, part of the reason that I don't, you know, double down on the invective and usually call people all sorts of names and say this is the most evil person ever. The reason I generally shy away from that is
they'll occasionally slip up, is because when I look at people who do really evil things, I think, there but for the grace of God, go I. I could have done that. Had a little turn not happened in my life, had I not been... Had I not seen God's grace before me and endeavored my very best to cooperate with it, I could be that guy too.
And I remember there was a very important moment in my religious reversion. I was away from the church for 10 years. I, at the age of 13, would have called myself an atheist and persisted in that for a long time. One of the big shifts in my perspective was when I realized that the phrase, he pleased himself, is a terrible epitaph. That would be a terrible thing to see in someone's obituary.
He did a lot of stuff that gave himself pleasure. Not he donated to his community. Not he left the world a better place. Not he sacrificed for others. But just, you know, he really got his. He made a lot of money, slept with a lot of girls, ate a lot of chocolate, gave himself a lot of pleasure. He'll be missed? No, he won't be missed. That's a really sad epitaph.
And part of my turn into atheism, some of that actually involved Ayn Rand. I was very taken with Ayn Rand as a teenager. That was a big driver of my libertarianism. I never really had a liberal phase, but I had a libertarian phase. I'm ashamed to confess to you. And Ayn Rand was a big part of it because Ayn Rand says you should do everything for yourself.
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Chapter 5: What reflections does the host share about the death of the OnlyFans owner?
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Every order is age verified. This product contains nicotine. Nicotine is an addictive chemical. My wife was formerly promiscuous, says this man, Trevor Sheets. I was a virgin. She was then radically born again, committed to church, evangelized constantly, Puritan books in her bedroom. So that's why I would say he's almost certainly an evangelical Protestant. I have a lot of Puritan ancestors.
Some of those separatists came here on the Mayflower. I love my Puritan family, but Puritanism, not where it's at. A friend of mine, a priest friend of mine once said that Thanksgiving is a bigger holiday in the UK than it is in America because it's when they got rid of all those Puritans and separatists. You guys are too weird. Get out of here. Anyway, so okay, that's this guy's perspective.
He talks about his wife. He says, we got to know each other well for over a year, dated for four months, engaged for two and a half, and did not sin sexually with one another. Our first kiss with each other was at the altar on our wedding day, reaction pic attached. So he puts a picture of his poor wife. He's calling his wife a slut. And then he puts this picture of the wife on the post.
We've been married for over five years now. She's been the most wonderful and godly wife, mother to our three children, and a homemaker you could imagine. She's more pure than most virgins, as biblical purity has less to do with past sins and more to do with one's current posture of the heart.
We're far too quick to forget the story of the woman labeled as a known sinner, which likely means a prostitute. The Pharisees were shocked that Jesus let a public sinner wash his feet. With her own tears, Jesus responded with a parable about debts being forgiven. Okay, you get the point. You get how this could be a nice thing. And yet it feels a little off, doesn't it?
I mean, it goes on and on and on. It's talking about Christ's forgiveness. And so that's all really good. It's true. Purity... ultimately has more to do with one's present state. You know, morality, virtue has more to do with one's present posture and orientation than it has to do with one's past sins. The devil wants to tell you that you're going to get bogged down in all your past sins.
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Chapter 6: What insights does the host provide on morality and past sins?
We owe each other discretion. You don't need to talk about your past sins all the time. Sometimes that can be powerful testimony, but sometimes it's a little awkward and weird. Sometimes it can be humiliating. Sometimes it can serve selfish purposes. I don't want to psychobabble this guy too much, but I do wonder if he is still a little bit troubled by this woman's past.
That's the first or second line in there, right? I was a virgin on my wedding day and my wife was a slut, but now she's so much nicer. Now it's so much, she's so wonderful. He's couching this condemnation of her past in a positive light, but look how wonderful she is now. And yet I do wonder if it still bothers him a little bit. We really shouldn't bring up each other's past sins to people.
It was one of the worst things, one of the most poisonous things you can do in a marriage is say, well, do you remember five years ago when you said such and such and such? Yeah, I really hated that and I've never gotten over it. And you did this and you did that. I mean, that's like the death of a marriage, isn't it? And he's doing that and he's couching it in this really nice Christian language.
We owe each other a little bit of discretion. We owe each other a little bit of a gracious comportment, not just the grace to say, I forgive you and you can move forward, but also the grace to move on, to forget about it.
If this guy's going to say, you know, if he's trying to teach a lesson to people that they don't need to be bogged down in their sin forever, he might hide who he's talking about. He might say, you know, a good friend of mine. Or, you know, someone I care about very much used to be like this, and now this person is like this. To say, hey, here's a picture of my wife.
She was a big mega slut, but now she's not so much anymore. Isn't it great? No, we owe each other a little bit of discretion. We owe each other a little bit of good comportment. And furthermore, this is an important lesson for Lent. Privately suffering, privately repenting can be a more difficult cross.
You know, in some ways, I think this temptation among certain types of Christians to just constantly be talking about your past sin, I think it comes about as a kind of anxiety or neurosis. We still feel the weight of it. We haven't truly moved on from it. And so you don't want people to think you're a hypocrite. You don't want people to discover this later and for it to be awkward.
You want to just rip the Band-Aid off. You want to immunitize the eschaton. So you say, you know, I used to be... A murderer and a thief and a drunkard and a glutton and a big old slut. Or my wife was that way. Or my husband was that way or whatever.
But you don't... Actually, something that can even more closely unite you to the cross of Christ, that can maybe even be more sanctifying, is to suffer that in silence. To feel a little of that anxiety. You know, look, at some point my past sins might come out. I hope they don't, but they might. Maybe ultimately in the end they probably will.
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